The Press: Philadelphia Profits

Last week Philadelphia's Curtis Publishing Co. totted up circulation
and revenue for the first six months of 1936. When the audit was
completed, President Walter Dean Fuller announced that, between them,
The Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman and Ladies' Home Journal
had gained some 418,000 readers over the first half of last year.
Circulation: Sateve-post: 2,972,026; Country Gentleman: 1,534,812;
Ladies' Home Journal: 2,786,219. Net profits of the three magazines
for the same period were up from $3,773,297 to $4,107,871. Curtis
no-par common stock paid 60¢ a share, as against last year's 42¢....